Ari Schwartz, an Obama-era White House cybersecurity official bemoaned that “federal cybersecurity leadership is in total disorder” at the close of Trump’s term. That was one of several Trump administration moves that thinned the government's top ranks of cybersecurity experts. That veto threat “speaks volumes about White House priorities,” said Mark Weatherford, a former DHS cybersecurity official and chief strategy officer at the National Cybersecurity Center. Some experts criticized the Trump administration for largely ignoring cybersecurity within its top ranks and leaving major work to lower-level officials. “The cultural norm of the Trump administration was the opposite.”About 29 percent of experts said the Trump administration took the nation in the right direction on cybersecurity.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2020 12:45 UTC